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...American culture,” the possibility for merging East and West. Today’s bubble tea-drinking, karaoke-singing hipster could be tomorrow’s cultural acceptance and integration. But how much effect can Asian culture have in America if its Asian origins are denied? Apparently, pop culture has since figured out the solution to the Yellow Peril: Just whitewash...
...elderly can extend their sex lives beyond what God and their grandchildren imagined. Kids take expensive prep courses to ace tests that are supposed to measure inborn aptitude. Short but healthy children are given human growth hormone for their self-esteem. Adults take Ritalin to sharpen their senses. Pop singers have their vocals, ahem, "sweetened" with additional recorded tracks. Yet no one is threatening legislation against Ashlee Simpson...
...adult; teen athletes, however, have started using the same drugs the pros do. Again, setting a good example for kids is a noble argument-but one that society hardly heeds otherwise. If steroid scold John McCain were a woman, he might be pushing laws against plastic surgery among pop starlets, the better to save girls from deadly eating disorders. President George W. Bush denounced steroid use in the State of the Union. "It sends the wrong message-that there are shortcuts to accomplishment," said the Yale legacy student...
Billboard magazine does not publish a posthumous pop chart, but if it did, Elvis and Tupac would have an everlasting grip on the top slots. Hovering just behind them would be Jeff Buckley. Buckley was not widely known during his life, and his productivity after death, while impressive, does not yet approach that of Presley or Shakur. But careerwise, he does have a few things going for him. In 1995 he was named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People. Two years later, on a spring day in Memphis, Tennessee, Buckley, 30, put down the guitar on which...
...interested. It instead launched new lines of handheld devices and corporate services that it thought would drive profits for a decade. Last year, however, those enterprises had a loss of $29 million. The company then reversed tactics and went down-market with "village computers" selling for $350 a pop. But that didn't work either?overall sales in the second quarter fell nearly 10%. At the same time, Dell's market share in China has nearly doubled in three years to 7.3%, with sales almost exclusively to wealthy corporate clients and government agencies. Just last month, the Ministry of Education...